Apricot Pineapple Shrimp Recipe

Apricot Pineapple Shrimp is one of my favorite recipes for dinner. Sweet and tangy shrimp, made with a few ingredients and perfect over rice or with potatoes. Don’t let the simple components fool you; this is an impressive dish. The sauce is sweet, tangy and addictive. I made this one night when I wanted to try something different, and it turned out fantastic. My family loved it. I even duplicated it for my company a few weeks later, and my of my friends stole the leftovers for lunch at her office the next day. This recipe is straightforward and easy to make as well.
I can’t stop eating the dried apricots as I am preparing the recipe. Fresh apricots are a great alternative, but they have a small season and are difficult to obtain unless it is the season (at least I have a hard time finding them in Florida). There is nothing as good to eat as a perfectly, ripe, juicy piece of fruit. For years, I only really ever had peaches or nectarines, but I have learned to expand my horizon into other types, including apricots. A good apricot is truly a treasure. To find a good apricot you need to know when they are in season. Even though apricots bloom early than nectarines or peaches; you can still find them showing up in stores around the same time as peaches and nectarines in late April to early May. The California crop in done by the end of July. The Washington Apricot season runs from June to August. The month of August almost exclusively belongs to Washington. The Michigan apricot season is a little later and shorter than the Washington season. It runs from July to August with some new varieties ripening in September.

Recipe:
Apricot Pineapple Shrimp
Ingredients:
One clove of garlic, minced
Two tablespoons of finely chopped onion
One tablespoon of Dijon mustard
One cup of apricot preserves
Two tablespoons of rice vinegar
One-Two Pounds of uncooked shrimp, peeled and deveined
One medium sweet rep pepper, cut into small pieces
I can of pineapple chunks
one package of dried apricots
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350.
Mix first five ingredients
Add shrimp
Thoroughly mix, making sure all the shrimp is coated with mixture
Add dried (or fresh) apricots
Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
Serve warm over rice.